Articles by Scott Blair

Specialty contractors in California extended their hot streak in 2015.

The Western States Roofing Contractors Association introduced “The Roofing Games” in 2014 at its annual exposition in Las Vegas as a way “to keep contractors on the trade show floor until the close of the show,” says Joel Viera, the group’s director of exposition and events.

More than 100 ships have passed smoothly through the Panama Canal's new $5.4-billion third lane; more turbulent is the ongoing dispute over nearly $3.5 billion in contractor claims.

Swinerton project accountant Thea Hem took this iPhone photo, which shows the dramatic scale of the Trinity Venus sculpture by Lawrence Argent in San Francisco.

The construction boom in California continues to widen to a scale hard to imagine just a few years ago.